Posted on 12/01/2017 10:01:21 AM PST by heterosupremacist
On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She took her seat in the ‘colored’ section, but as she rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home, the bus began to fill.
The Montgomery city ordinance allowed bus drivers to assign seating. However, it did not permit them to demand a passenger give up their seat. Despite this, bus drivers had customarily required black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers when the public transportation became full.
When Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat, she refused. She was arrested and what followed is Civil Rights history. She was found guilty on December 5, 1955, of violating the city ordinance and fined $10 plus a court fee.
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My takeaway from that historical episode: avoid public transportation no matter what the ridership may be.
It’s ride the Public Bus Day.
Public transportation is no longer safe for white people.
We just pay the bill, sorta like libraries, which are full of homeless scumbags and La Raza types, and which I and my daughter can no longer visit.
My dad was driving a Greyhound bus from about 1940-1946. He drove mostly from Springfield MO to Tulsa, OK. Jim Crow was in full flower. He refused to enforce it.
In the early 60s before the Civil Rights Act, he forced the integration of the Houston Bus Terminal and the adjacent restaurant of which he was manager. He was suspended w/o pay by Greyhound who told him he could have a job anywhere north of the Mason/Dixon line. We stayed in Houston another year so my brother could graduate from HS.
Also, Rosa Parks was a trouble-making commie.
Screw her, and not in a good way.
I talk sh\t about her whenever I get the opportunity.
#5 Mercat ~
Your dad acted heroically, you should be proud!
Why? She didn’t do anything others had done before. She’s nothing special.
I’ll make a point of playing Weird Al’s “Another One Rides the Bus”
I’ve noticed there is a strong tendency for the so-called Civil Rights activists to create and fawn over people rather than principles. They’re always wearing or displaying on a poster the image of this or that supposed martyr. They are big into iconography but it’s always of a person...such behavior is usually associated with cults and mobs rather than those ostensibly promoting civil rights (ie the rights of the individual in a society or under a government).
Hey we’ve got some big names too - Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Reagan et al - but while I may see quotes, internet memes, etc. I almost never see someone walking around with a silkscreened image of these figures.
Very.
Sad that too many blacks don’t identify with Rosa Parks, in that, Rosa Parks had a job; Rosa Parks was coming home from a day of work.
Flame away. The inconvenient truth is that there is no work ethic in too much of black America. Liberals bitch about inconvenient truths so let’s put this one out there.
Barbershop showcases the actual diversity of opinion in a community that's often accused of "group think". And it shows the effort of people who want to rise above the swamp through education and entrepreneurship. But it also illustrates the crab basket of those who want to drag you back down — and it's not the white man either.
Worth viewing.
I saw it and I agree, a pleasant surprise.
I hope they make a movie about her. Maybe they could get someone like Nicole Kidman or Anne Hathaway as the star.
And he improved race relations to the modern day utopia, right?
Maybe that fake black woman in Washington state?
He treated every person as a child of God.
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